I love my Chevy. The best dog EVUH. I woke a little after 5am to heavy legs and nerve pain. As soon as I realized Mark was not in bed (he's an early riser), I gave the bed the familiar "thump" to signal Chevy. Normally he lays on Mark's pillow, which is a sore spot with Mark and an entire new story. However, this morning he laid on my legs. He always knows when he needs to lay on my legs!!! Weight stops nerve pain. He doesn't lay directly on them as much as he cuddles tight against them. It's the best warm fuzzy feeling in the entire world. He does this every few months because he KNOWS. I swear he knows my soul. That darn cutie patootie scruff monster is the best therapy a dr. could order. Here is a picture of him eating his McDonalds ice cream cone, which is really in a dish. You should see how proudly he carries his ice cream from the car to the house. He loves his McDonalds .49 cone. lol. It could be a viral video.
Work is going to be crazy this week. We are short bankers. Right now I'm the one and only of what should be three bankers and a customer service rep. It's just moi. Just call me Mindy Armstrong (if your an 80's child you will get that reference). I usually like a challenge but I'm not very good at balancing my MS and overdoing things. I don't want to set myself into a MS spin and be forced to take Gilenya. I need to keep a watchful eye on myself. Blah. It shouldn't be so hard. I mean we are supposed to watch out for ourselves, right? I'm too distracted by a zillion other things to stop the presses and worry about myself. Maybe I should tie a string around my ring finger?
Mark and I had a talk about Gilenya during our recent car ride to Marquette. I can't make him understand how I feel about taking another drug and I'm sure I don't understand how my "not" taking the drug is making him nervous.
On another note, for years and years (were talking since high school), I've had tingling in my upper thigh/hip area. It's not painful so much as annoying. Imagine 1000 red ants moving in the same circle. It's like your hand falling asleep only the tingling is burning as it wakes up. Seems like a symptom typical of MS. Anyways, after many sleepless nights, Dr. Johnson (my neuro) finally said "I don't think this is MS." and referred me back to my primary, Dr. Ryan. At Dr. Ryan's, he had me lay out and he pressed on the spot. Of course, I jumped off the table. "MS doesn't make you jump off tables" is what he said. I had a good laugh at this because he's never gotten a sudden shock down his spinal chord now has he?? So, he referred me to a PT for some stretching exercises as it seems my walking, weights or elliptical is aggravating the spot and making sleep so difficult. See, it doesn't hurt during the day. It only comes alive when I relax so sleeping had become difficult. In comes another dilemma...lol...my life is one big dilemma...I'm such a drama queen....anyways, he gave me a cortisone shot in that spot. Apparently right over the hip join there is a spot where all muscles connect and some type of sac protecting. It becomes inflamed and irritated so cortisone helps. And it did. I had a hip shot 21 days ago and I've been sleeping so well. Heaven. Until last night. It's starting again....grrrrrrrrr......
Three more days until juicing. This will sound funny or prove how lazy I truly am. But I can't wait until choices for meals have been limited. I don't want to cook and I certainly don't want to make choices for dinner. Meal choices spin me into an indecisive circle until eventually I talk myself out of cooking anything.
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